Nina Nannar

FRSA The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, commonly known as the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), is a learned society that champions innovation and progress across a multitude of sectors by fostering creativity, s ...

is a British

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, who has worked for ITN News for more than 20 years.''New Fellows''. RSA Journal. Issue I 2025. Born and brought up in

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, North Lincolnshire to

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parents, along with her two brothers and sister, she worked on

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, ''Children in Need'' (1999–2000) and the BBC News's '' 2000 Today''. She joined

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in March 2001 as the media and arts correspondent for

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, later becoming a news correspondent. On 13 December 2016, it was announced that Nannar was to become arts editor from 2017. She has since interviewed many well-known celebrities and covered major arts events, including the Oscars and BAFTAs. Nannar is a member of

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and the Brit Awards Voting Academy. Nannar is an Ambassador at the King's Trust and the

British Asian Trust The British Asian Trust was founded in 2007 by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and a group of pre-eminent British Asian business leaders. The Trust works to tackle the widespread poverty and hardship in South Asia to which millions are cu ...

. In 2025, she was awarded a fellowship at the

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* * * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British people of Indian descent People from Grimsby ITN newsreaders and journalists {{UK-tv-journalist-stub